Spattling-machine



UNITED STATES MARTIN VVILOOX, OF MIDDLEBURY, OHIO.

SPATTLlNG-MACHINE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 38,075, dated March 31, 1863.

To all whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, MARTIN WILcoX, of Middlebury, in the county of Sum mit, State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful machine to be used in the manufacture of that kind of earthenware known as Rockingham Vare, said machine being for the purpose of putting the glaze on such ware, a process known among potters as spatt1ing,77 and said machine being ca led a Spattling-Machine, and I do hereby declare the. following to be a full and complete description of said machine, reference being had to the accompanying drawing and letters of reference, as follows:

Box A is a vessel to contain the liquid glaze. To the box is attached the diaphragmpump B, connected with the pedal G. From the pump B a discharge-pipe ascends to airvessel D, having a discharge at E. Under this discharge is placed any required number of sieves set in a sloping position, so as to carry to the sides any glaze that may lodge upon them, and thus prevent its falling in heavy blots upon the ware. Surrounding these sieves is a case or bonnet, G, to prevent the glaze from wasteful spread of spray. Around the inner lower edge ofthe bonnet is a sloping trough or gutter, H, for conducting O the glaze that drips from the edges of the sieves and the sides of the case. By working the pump the glaze is forced into chamber D and discharged in an even current at the tip E, falling evenly in a shower upon the ware as it is passed beneath the sieves.

I do not claim, broadly, as my invention the sprinkling or spattling the ware, that being commonly done by a hand-brush; but

I claim- 1. The application of sieves 'or screens for dividing the substance of the glaze and distributing it upon the ware.

2. In combination with the sieves thus used, the bonnet Gr, trough H, pump B, chamber D, all constructed substantially in the manner and for the purpose as set forth.

MARTIN WILGOX. Witnesses:

JOHN E. ABELL, CELIA F. WILooX. 

